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eMedMD is a medical and health information site by a created by a UK doctor. The aim of the site is to provide accurate, detailed medical information, to enable you to be better informed and improve your health. Many of the articles are written with the minimum of medical terminology. Some of the articles are very detailed and written in medical language - these are labelled as "technical articles".

Nivolumab has been found to extend lives of relapsed patients who had run out of therapy options. An immunotherapy drug hailed as a potential gamechanger in the treatment of cancer could soon offer new hope to patients with currently untreatable forms of the disease.

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A very commonly taken group of drugs known as proton pump inhibitors (PPI's) used to treat heartburn, acid reflux or peptic ulcers, are associated with an increased incidence of dementia by 44 per cent, a new study of people over 75 years in Germany finds.

When it comes to staying healthy, the advice is endless - drink more water, exercise more, take your vitamins, eat oily fish, drink more coffee, drink less coffee. But a new study appears to simplify the key to long-term health; it suggests that by replacing 1 hour of sitting each day with walking, we can decrease our chance of early death by 12-14%.